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"Cecilia" from Frances Burney. Known as Fanny Burney, English novelist, diarist and playwright (1752-1840).

"Evelina" from Frances Burney. Known as Fanny Burney, English novelist, diarist and playwright (1752-1840).

"Cecilia" de Fanny Burney. Nee Frances Burney, apres son mariage aussi connue comme Madame d'Arblay, femme de lettres et romanciere anglaise (1752-1840)."

"Evelina" de Fanny Burney. Nee Frances Burney, apres son mariage aussi connue comme Madame d'Arblay, femme de lettres et romanciere anglaise (1752-1840)."

Good-looking, kind-hearted Evelina Anville has grown up in rural obscurity as the ward of a country parson. At the age of seventeen, she begins her progress from provincial life to fashionable London a transition that's complicated by vulgar relatives and her own naivete. Evelina's shrewd intelligence, however, perceives the hypocrisy behind the refined facades as she learns to balance the honesty and simplicity of her upbringing with the sophisticated etiquette of high society.
Written in the form of letters, this 1778 novel offers an intimate look at coming-of-age among England's...